Soil and Landscape Grid National Soil Attribute Maps - Coarse Fragments (3" resolution) - Release 1 

This is Version 1 of the Soil Coarse Fragments product of the Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia.

The Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia has produced a range of digital soil attribute products. Each product contains six digital soil attribute maps, and their upper and lower confidence limits, representing the soil attribute at six depths: 0-5 cm, 5-15 cm, 15-30 cm, 30-60 cm, 60-100 cm and 100-200 cm. These depths are consistent with the specifications of the GlobalSoilMap.net project - GlobalSoilMaps. The digital soil attribute maps are in raster format at a resolution of 3 arc sec (~90 x 90 m pixels).
These maps are generated using Digital Soil Mapping methods.

Detailed information about the Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia can be found at - SLGA

• Attribute Definition: Soil Coarse Fragments Class Probabilities as defined in the Australian Soil and Land Survey Field Handbook (Units: Probability of CF class occurring);
• Period (temporal coverage; approximately): 1950-2022;
• Spatial resolution: 3 arc seconds (approximately 90 m);
• Total number of gridded maps for this attribute: 18;
• Number of pixels with coverage per layer: 2007M (49200 * 40800);
• Total size before compression: about 8GB;
• Total size after compression: about 4GB;
• Format: Cloud Optimised GeoTIFF.

 

We at TERN acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians throughout Australia, New Zealand and all nations. We honour their profound connections to land, water, biodiversity and culture and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.

The observed data used to produce this map was obtained from state and federal soil survey agencies. The work was supported by TERN. CSIRO maintains and makes the data through the Australian Soil Resource Information System. 

The aim is to operate an open national capability that provides access to verified, science-quality land surface dynamics data and soils information layers, plus high-end data analytics tools that integrated with other TERN observations can meet the needs of ecosystem researchers and actionable information for policy makers and natural resource managers.

The map gives a modelled estimate of the spatial distribution of Soil Coarse Fragments Class Probabilities as defined in the Australian Soil and Land Survey Field Handbook in soils across Australia. 

Data not provided.